Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Concealed and Unconcealed Motives for Joining the Parent-Teacher Association: Mapping Sentence and Smallest Space Analysis
Originally published 2018-09-11 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01705 ↗
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What motivates a family to join a parent–teacher association?
The researchers investigate why parents join a school association, rather than assuming that all members enter with the same expectations.
Who was studied?
155 Israeli parents who answered an anonymous questionnaire about parent–teacher association membership.
Age / stage: Parents of schoolchildren
Read with three questions
- Which motivations were participants willing to report directly?
- Which measures came from the same participant, and which had an independent source?
- Where do children, families and educators each have a voice in the evidence?
Keep the limits in view
A cross-sectional account measures variables in the same period. It cannot establish which came first; participants reporting more than one measure may also introduce shared reporting bias.
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Yael Fisher (2018). Concealed and Unconcealed Motives for Joining the Parent-Teacher Association: Mapping Sentence and Smallest Space Analysis Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01705
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